Rawapindi, One person was killed and 15 others were injured when explosives attached to an electricity pole in Pakistan's Rawalpindi city went off, police said.

A big fire erupted after the powerful blast on Friday night in the city's Saddar Bazaar which also caused widespread damage at the scene, reports

Washington, The US Federal Reserve said the COVID-19 pandemic has led to an alarming surge in job losses, "with the unemployment rate, which had been at a 50-year low, soaring to a post-World War II record high".

The central bank's remarks were part of its Monetary Policy Report submitted to Congress

Jaipur, Rajasthan has, so far, received 130 per cent of pre-monsoon rains, Met Department officials said on Friday.

The state registers 21 mm of pre-monsoon rains on an average but this year, it has touched the mark of 48.2 mm.

In March, 4.1 mm rainfall is reported. However, this year, 20.2 mm rainf

Hyderabad, In the continuing surge in Covid-19 cases, Telangana on Friday reported nine deaths and 164 new infections.

The fresh fatalities pushed the death toll in the state to 174 while the tally of Covid-19 positive cases mounted to 4,484.

According to the director of public health and family wel

New Delhi, The Rajya Sabha Secretariat has advised members of the Upper House of Parliament to ensure cancellation of unavailed bookings of train journeys they are entitled to, sources said on Friday.

A bulletin has been issued to the members after taking cognisance of alleged large-scale multiple bookings for tra

New Delhi, A Hindu organisation has moved the Supreme Court to challenge a provision of a 1991 law that provides for maintaining the "religious character" of holy structures as existed on August 15, 1947, in order to reclaim disputed religious sites through litigation, other than the Ram Janmabhoomi in Ayodhya.

Guwahati/Shillong, June 12 (IANS) Two more Covid-19 patients, including a woman, died in Assam on Friday, taking the state's death count to eight while a coronavirus-infected woman gave birth to a baby boy in Meghalaya, officials said.

Assam Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, in a tweet, said that two m

Bengaluru, June 13 (IANS) With the profound message of Iskcon Founder Acharya Shrila Prabhupada that "no one should go hungry" as its motto, the country's leading non-government organisation Akshaya Patra Foundation has served a whopping 6.3-crore meals to the needy since the lockdown was enforced across the c

Bengaluru,  Around 4,000 Assamese migrants workers struggled to return home as they assembled at the Palace Grounds here but had no information for any possible train journey to their state on Friday.

"This is a colossal failure of the administration. Nobody is taking charge because they are migrant work

New Delhi/Gonda, With the emergence of 'real' Anamika Shukla from Uttar Pradesh's Gonda district, in whose name a teacher in the state was allegedly drawing salary from 25 places and had garnered more than Rs 1 crore, the issue has now added a new political twist as the district BJP MP Kirti Vardhan Singh demanded a